List of stars in Pictor - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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Star

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s in the constellation

Constellation

In modern astronomy, a constellation is an internationally defined area of the celestial sphere. These areas are grouped around asterisms, patterns formed by prominent stars within apparent proximity to one another on Earth's night sky....

Pictor
Pictor
Pictor is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky , located between the brilliant star Canopus and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its name is Latin for painter, but it is in fact an abbreviation of its original name Equuleus Pictoris, the 'painter's easel', and it is normally represented...

, sorted by decreasing brightness.

Name	B Bayer designation A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter, followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name...	G. Gould designation Gould designations for stars are similar to Flamsteed designations in the way that they number stars within a constellation in increasing order of right ascension. Each star is assigned an integer , followed by " G. " , and then the Latin genitive of the constellation it lies in...	HD Henry Draper Catalogue The Henry Draper Catalogue is an astronomical star catalogue published between 1918 and 1924, giving spectroscopic classifications for 225,300 stars; it was later expanded by the Henry Draper Extension , published between 1925 and 1936, which gave classifications for 46,850 more stars, and by the...	HIP	vis. mag. Apparent magnitude The apparent magnitude of a celestial body is a measure of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth, adjusted to the value it would have in the absence of the atmosphere...	abs. mag. Absolute magnitude Absolute magnitude is the measure of a celestial object's intrinsic brightness. it is also the apparent magnitude a star would have if it were 32.6 light years away from Earth...	Dist. (ly)	Sp. class Stellar classification In astronomy, stellar classification is a classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. The spectral class of a star is a designated class of a star describing the ionization of its chromosphere, what atomic excitations are most prominent in the light, giving an objective measure...	Notes
α Pic Alpha Pictoris Alpha Pictoris is the brightest star in the constellation Pictor with an apparent magnitude of 3.30. It is located about 99 light years from the Sun...	α	66	50241	32607	3.24	0.83	99	A7IV
β Pic Beta Pictoris Beta Pictoris is the second brightest star in the constellation Pictor. It is located 63.4 light years from our solar system, and is 1.75 times as massive and 8.7 times as luminous as the Sun. The Beta Pictoris system is very young, only 8–20 million years old, although it is already in the main...	β	32	39060	27321	3.85	2.42	63	A5V	has a protoplanetary disk Protoplanetary disk A protoplanetary disk is a rotating circumstellar disk of dense gas surrounding a young newly formed star, a T Tauri star, or Herbig Ae/Be star... and one known planet Extrasolar planet An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. A total of such planets have been identified as of . It is now known that a substantial fraction of stars have planets, including perhaps half of all Sun-like stars... (b)
γ Pic	γ	35	39523	27530	4.50	0.87	174	K1III
δ Pic	δ	48	42933	29276	4.72	−3.81	1655	B0.5IV	β Lyr variable Beta Lyrae variable Beta Lyrae variables are a class of close binary stars. Their total brightness is variable because the two component stars orbit each other, and in this orbit one component periodically passes in front of the other one, thereby blocking its light. The two component stars of Beta Lyrae systems are...
		47	42540	28991	5.04	−0.37	394	K2/K3III
η² Pic	η²	11	33042	23649	5.05	−0.76	474	M2IIIvar
		37	39640	27621	5.16	0.61	264	G8III
61 G. Pic		61	46355	30932	5.20	0.29	312	K0III
		42	40292	27947	5.29	2.58	114	F0Ve...
λ Pic	λ	4	30185	21914	5.30	0.19	343	K0/K1III
		30	38871	27243	5.31	−0.44	460	K0/K1II
η¹ Pic	η¹	10	32743	23482	5.37	3.28	85	F2V
ζ Pic	ζ	16	35072	24829	5.44	2.65	118	F7III-IV
		20	36553	25768	5.46	2.26	143	G3IV
ι Pic A	ι	7	31203	22531	5.58	2.73	121	F0IV...
ν Pic	ν	52	45229	30342	5.60	2.09	164	Am
		45	41214	28484	5.65	1.65	206	A1m...
μ Pic	μ	64	46860	31137	5.69	−1.04	724	B9V
		56	45557	30463	5.78	1.06	287	A0V
		44	40733	28287	5.81	−2.13	1264	G8II
		59	45984	30703	5.82	−0.53	606	K3III
		21	36734	25887	5.86	0.07	468	K3III
		38	39937	27737	5.93	0.41	415	F7IV
		14	34347	24384	6.03	−0.63	701	K3III
		18	35765	25317	6.09	0.03	532	K1III
κ Pic	κ	17	35580	25098	6.10	−0.71	749	B8/B9V
TX Pic		25	37434	26300	6.10	0.08	522	K2III	RS CVn variable RS Canum Venaticorum variable RS Canum Venaticorum variables are a type of variable star. They are close binary stars having active chromospheres which can cause large stellar spots. These spots are believed to cause variations in their observed luminosity...
		40	40200	27937	6.11	−1.53	1101	B3V
		67	50571	32775	6.11	3.51	108	F7III-IV
AE Pic		63	46792	31068	6.15	−1.58	1148	B3V	spectroscopic binary
AK Pic		65	48189	31711	6.15	4.47	71	G1/G2V	BY Draconis variable BY Draconis variable BY Draconis variables are main sequence variable stars of late spectral types, usually K or M. The name comes from the archetype for this category of variable star system, BY Draconis. They exhibit variations in their luminosity due to rotation of the star coupled with star spots, and other...
		33	39110	27317	6.19	−1.68	1221	K3III
		12	33116	23653	6.26	−0.40	700	M2III
θ Pic Theta Pictoris Theta Pictoris is a star in the Pictor constellation.Theta Pictoris is a multiple star system: AB: 7.0, 7.5; PA 152°, separation 0.2" C: 7.0; PA 287°, separation 38"....	θ	19	35860	25303	6.26	0.19	534	A0V
		58	45796	30524	6.26	−0.43	710	B6V
		55	45461	30352	6.30	−1.28	1069	M1III
		36	39547	27583	6.32	−0.84	883	K0/K1III
		29	38458	27001	6.38	1.82	266	F0IIIn
		34	39312	27512	6.38	−1.79	1405	K1III
SW Pic		46	41586	28596	6.41	−0.61	825	M4III
ι Pic B	ι	8	31204	22534	6.42	3.89	105	F0IV
		23	37226	26079	6.42	2.67	183	F8V
		27	37781	26515	6.43	0.41	522	A0V
		50	44120	29788	6.44	3.64	119	G1V
		1	29805	21666	6.45	−0.07	656	K2III
		57	45701	30480	6.45	3.94	104	G3III/IV
		54	45450	30423	6.47	1.52	319	A3V
			34587	24520	6.48	−0.62	856	K2III
		43	40665	28180	6.48	−0.24	720	K5/M0III
HD 40307			40307	57428	7.17	6.63	42	K2.5V	text-align:left; > has three planets (b HD 40307 b HD 40307 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 40307, located 42 light-years away in the direction of the southern constellation Pictor. The planet was discovered by the radial velocity method, using the HARPS apparatus, in June 2008; it is the smallest of three "Super-Earths", planets... , c HD 40307 c HD 40307 c is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 40307, located 42 light-years away in the direction of the southern constellation Pictor. The planet was discovered by the radial velocity method, using the HARPS apparatus, in June 2008... & d HD 40307 d HD 40307 d is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 40307, located 42 light-years from Earth in the direction of the southern constellation Pictor. The planet was discovered by the radial velocity method, using the HARPS apparatus in June 2008. It is the most massive of the three known... )
HD 41004 HD 41004 HD 41004 is a star system approximately 139 light years away in the constellation of Pictor.- HD 41004 A :HD 41004 A is a primary orange dwarf star of spectral type K1V and apparent magnitude 8.65.- Planetary system :...			41004	28393	8.65	5.48	140	K1V+M2	double star Double star In observational astronomy, a double star is a pair of stars that appear close to each other in the sky as seen from Earth when viewed through an optical telescope. This can happen either because the pair forms a binary star, i.e... , has a planet (Ab HD 41004 Ab HD 41004 Ab is an extrasolar planet approximately 139 light years away in the constellation of Pictor. It has mass 2.56 MJ planet orbiting at a distance of 1.70 AU from HD 41004 A. The planet's orbit is highly eccentric caused by the companion star HD 41004 B and the distance ranges from 0.44 to... ) and a brown dwarf Brown dwarf Brown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects which are too low in mass to sustain hydrogen-1 fusion reactions in their cores, which is characteristic of stars on the main sequence. Brown dwarfs have fully convective surfaces and interiors, with no chemical differentiation by depth... (Bb)
Kapteyn's Star Kapteyn's Star Kapteyn's Star is a class M1 red dwarf star about 13 light years from Earth in the southern constellation of Pictor. With a magnitude of nearly 9 it is visible through binoculars or a telescope.-History:...			33793	24186	8.89	10.92	13	M1V	VZ Pic; nearest halo star Galactic halo The term galactic halo is used to denote an extended, roughly spherical component of a galaxy, which extends beyond the main, visible component. It can refer to any of several distinct components which share these properties:* the galactic spheroid...
AB Pic AB Pictoris AB Pictoris is a K-type star, approximately 148 light-years away in the constellation of Pictor. It has been identified as a member of the young Tucana–Horologium association. The star has also been classified as a BY Draconis variable...			44627	30034	9.16	5.87	148	K2V	variable star Variable star A star is classified as variable if its apparent magnitude as seen from Earth changes over time, whether the changes are due to variations in the star's actual luminosity, or to variations in the amount of the star's light that is blocked from reaching Earth... ; has a planet or a brown dwarf (b)

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